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13 Jul 11
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This work was a complete breakthrough from everything that he had done before that time. It was the early stage of Cubism and a mixture of every other “ism”: Fauvism, Expressionism, Primitivism, Futurism and Modernism.
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It was a summer in 1906 at Gosol, a little Spanish village, where its rough, primitive setting had led him to adopt a simplified style indicative of the sculptors of the Catalan Romanesque period (Crespelle, 97)
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Egyptian symmetry, ancient Greek sculpture, the Virgins of Catalan art, Cezanne’s geometric planes and the rough expressionism of Negro statuettes (Crespelle, 99).
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He begun to cut up his figures into geometric shapes, cones, spheres, cylinders and in clearly defined planes just like Cezanne used to do.
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In the painting, Picasso over highlighted the cutting up of the shapes with brightly colored lines that remind tribal scars on the faces of some African tribesmen (Boudaille, 36). I
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three major styles: on the left, the flattening of the woman’s torso reminds Egyptian art; the noses of the two central figures are seen in profile whereas the rest of the facial characteristics are face on, something which reminds Iberian art and finally, the features of the woman in the right are reminiscent of masks of the Negro art.
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Common in most of The Demoiselles sketches is the general design of the picture inspired by Cezanne’s bather compositions as well as by a certain influence of El Greco in the abstract breaking of the planes
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he blue Picasso uses seems to be a window behind the figures.
Furthermore, what is obvious in the Demoiselles is the contrast between the use of red and blue. -
The use of bright color helped create the idea of flatness, something found in some of Gauguin’s paintings, limiting the illusion of depth (Harisson et al, 132).
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21 Jan 11
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25 Nov 10
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14 Mar 09
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The Demoiselles D’Avignon is undoubtedly advancement in 20th century art. The question however is where did Picasso get his inspiration and who influenced him? It was a summer in 1906 at Gosol, a little Spanish village, where its rough, primitive setting had led him to adopt a simplified style indicative of the sculptors of the Catalan Romanesque period (Crespelle, 97). Picasso put into his work influences that had interested him for some time: Egyptian symmetry, ancient Greek sculpture, the Virgins of Catalan art, Cezanne’s geometric planes and the rough expressionism of Negro statuettes (Crespelle, 99)
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The Demoiselles D’Avignon is undoubtedly advancement in 20th century art. The question however is where did Picasso get his inspiration and who influenced him? It was a summer in 1906 at Gosol, a little Spanish village, where its rough, primitive setting had led him to adopt a simplified style indicative of the sculptors of the Catalan Romanesque period (Crespelle, 97). Picasso put into his work influences that had interested him for some time: Egyptian symmetry, ancient Greek sculpture, the Virgins of Catalan art, Cezanne’s geometric planes and the rough expressionism of Negro statuettes (Crespelle, 99)
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The Demoiselles D’Avignon is undoubtedly advancement in 20th century art. The question however is where did Picasso get his inspiration and who influenced him? It was a summer in 1906 at Gosol, a little Spanish village, where its rough, primitive setting had led him to adopt a simplified style indicative of the sculptors of the Catalan Romanesque period (Crespelle, 97). Picasso put into his work influences that had interested him for some time: Egyptian symmetry, ancient Greek sculpture, the Virgins of Catalan art, Cezanne’s geometric planes and the rough expressionism of Negro statuettes (Crespelle, 99)
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he Demoiselles D’Avignon is undoubtedly advancement in 20th century art. The question however is where did Picasso get his inspiration and who influenced him? It was a summer in 1906 at Gosol, a little Spanish village, where its rough, primitive setting had led him to adopt a simplified style indicative of the sculptors of the Catalan Romanesque period (Crespelle, 97). Picasso put into his work influences that had interested him for some time: Egyptian symmetry, ancient Greek sculpture, the Virgins of Catalan art, Cezanne’s geometric planes and the rough expressionism of Negro statuettes (Crespelle, 99)
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he Demoiselles D’Avignon is undoubtedly advancement in 20th century art. The question however is where did Picasso get his inspiration and who influenced him? It was a summer in 1906 at Gosol, a little Spanish village, where its rough, primitive setting had led him to adopt a simplified style indicative of the sculptors of the Catalan Romanesque period (Crespelle, 97). Picasso put into his work influences that had interested him for some time: Egyptian symmetry, ancient Greek sculpture, the Virgins of Catalan art, Cezanne’s geometric planes and the rough expressionism of Negro statuettes (Crespelle, 99)
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07 Jul 06
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